Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-06
sCALPiNG the sCALPERs.


The Trunk Lines Bound to Enforce
the Recent Innovation.
NEW YORK, April 5.-Despite the SCOTS
of those who have watched the hitherto
futile attempts of the great railroad COM
panies to do away with ticket scalpers,
the trunk lines seem determined to en-
force the recent order stopping the pay
ment Of ticket commissions. To-day at a
meeting at the Office oiCommissioner Fink
the general passenger agents Of the trunk
lines decided not to issue any through
tickets on any connecting line which re-
fused to join in the compact or fails to
enforce the new rules. There were pres
ent General Passenger Agents Wood. OF
Pennsylvania; HOW'LL, of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western; Monett, OF
the New York Central; Lambert, of the
West Shore, and Farmer, of the Erie
road.
THE PENNSYLvANIA'S FIGHT.
CHICAGO, April 5.-The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and its allied lines
ordered all of their ticket agents
commencing to-day, to throw out all
coupon tickets of Western roads, with the
| exception of the St. Paul, and to sell no
more tickets TO Western points beyond
the terminus of the Pennsylvania Com
pany. The effect of this order is that any
person from the East travelling beyond
Chicago will be forced to buy ticket
over the western road at this point unless
he travels over the ST. Paul. AS the
w estern roads will probably retaliate, a
| war between the two sections is expect
ed. The action of the Pennsylvania road
is based on the refusal of the Western
lines to cease paying commissions.
TwENTY-NINE ROADS THROWN OUT.
WASHINGTON, April "a dispatch
from st, Louis announces that the East
ern Traffic Association has thrown out
the tickets of twenty-nine Western rail.
| roads, and calls il u "boycott." Pas
sengers from the East intending to travel
over any of these twentv-nine roads can
| only purchase tickeLs and check baggage
| to the psint of connection with the boy
cotted roads, among which are named the
Missouri Pacific, Wabash, Chicago and
Alton, and Rock Island. The Boston and
Albany road in the East is also named as
| among the boycotted roads.
A dispatch from Pittsburg quotes AS.
sistaIt General Passenger Agent Van
Dusen, of the Pennsylvania Company, TO
| the effect that the talk of "boycotting" is
| nonsense. 1.-THE lines over which through
tickets are not being sold are simply
waiting for the advice Of their counsel.
Our company has already consented to
| sell through tickets over a large number
OF connecting roads. In instances where
| the sale OF through tickets have been
Withdrawn it is merely temporary. The
| tickets will be reinstated as soon as legal
advice is given to have us act as agents
of each of the different roads. We have
cited authority from several additional
Western roads this morning. Circulars
| will be issued to-day to sell through
| tickets over such Ines" The lines CIV
lug such authority to The Pennsylvania
Company include the Chicago and North.
western, Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul,
Chicago, Burlington aud Quincy and
Union Pacific railroads.
NOT A BOYCOTT.
1t is denied that the decision of the
agreeing companies OF the Trunk Line
Association and Central Traffic Associa-
| tion not to do business with those lines
which have not signlhed their agreement
| in the compact To cut of commissions TO
scalpers is intended as a boycott. 1t
| 10 simply business agreement. II
| these roads cannot agree with the others
on how they shall do business, OF
course they cannot do business at
| ALL The Interstate commerce law
provides that rates shall not be
changed after the filing of schedules with
| commissions, violation OF the law being
| "A penal offense. To-day the general pas
senger agents fixed up their lists. A
number OF small roads, about thirty IN
all, had not signifed their agreement In
the compact, and few, notably those
lines between Chicago and Kansas City,
have refused to join the combina-
tion. The Deputy Commissioner in
speaking Of the matter said this Evening:
"lt is not a boycott. We are simply
starting right under the new law, The
only roads OF consequence which have
not agreed In the compact are those in
the Amalgamated western Association,
and they will doubtless signify their
agreement In a day or two. At present
there are about ninety roads in the COM
pact"